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Along about 1:30 this afternoon the Harvard Band will file into the Stadium. In many respected it will be the same band. The uniforms are the same, the musical quality will be the same, the songs the same, but Mal Holmes will not be the conductor today and because of that, the band that marches in this afternoon will be different from those that have preceded it over the past ten years...
...What Mal Holmes meant not only to his own bandsmen, but to the players and to everyone who sat on the Harvard side of the field can never really be stated. It is something that made undergraduates sing even though Army had just scored its seventh straight touchdown, something that kept people rooted in their seats when the weather was bad and the score was worse. Something played in front of Dillon Field House that made Princeton students envious even though their team had just crushed Harvard, and something that made marching up the street to the game behind...
They honored Mal Holmes at Harvard night at the Pops, and the Class tendered ovation after ovation for the Boston Orchestra--but the biggest cheer of the night came when classmate Johnny Green, famous songwriter and currently musical director of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, took over from regular conductor Arthur Fiedler...
Tonight the show rolls over to the Pops in special buses from the Union. The special dinner and concert will honor Mal Holmes, creator and conductor of the much-lauded, modern Harvard Band...
...varsity, Captain Dick Lincoln will stroke, with Oliver Leland at seven, Randy Seed six, Mal Rohrbough five, and Bill Lindemulder at four. Bill Gray is three, Frank Maybank two, and Joe Brown how. George Notter will...